How does sustainable agriculture measure up in the EU and US?

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Here are three key differences and three similarities between the sustainable food pushes in the USA and Europe

In some ways, the European Union is progressing ahead of the United States on sustainability issues, especially at the federal level. An EU law from this year, the corporate sustainability directive, requires...

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